State of the Chinese Internet

Of the 22.6% of the country that now has access to the Internet, 162 million blog, while 234 million log on to read up on the news.

NetEase also released their annual top 10 Internet "Hot" lists for the year yesterday, and not surprisingly, "Sichuan earthquake", "Olympic Games" and "Naked Picture Scandal" were at the top of the report's "Hot Keywords List". Edison Chen, Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung finished atop the list of entertainers, while Yao Ming and Liu Xiang were the year's most popular sports stars.

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